As the taboo around anal sex – and particularly, ladies loving anal sex in a genuine, not ‘pretending to love it to make my boyfriend happy’ kind of way – dies a long-overdue death, we’re learning more about how many people are doing it, how they’re doing it, and why they love it, on a more anatomical level. Some women can only come from clitoral stimulation (and a lot of anal sex fans are understandably in favor of combining the two), but others have more complex means of achieving orgasm.

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